A Dog Rose Hello

Dog Roses

The evening is getting on here. It’s 21.45 as I sit down to write a few brief words. Then I’ll go though the launch sequence and hit publish. Then I’ll have closed out the week.

I went to see the fiddle player from my country band’s other country band, The Dog Roses.

They played two sets, so my afternoon and evening were spent hanging out with friends against a backdrop of rock and roll with a bluegrass edge. It was a good time.

Permanently Moved

A Menagerie of Models

I’ve come to think of the collection of tools I use as a kind of menagerie of models. I thought I’d share how I use them. 

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Forest Bed

This is a reminder that my band is playing the Lodgchella All Dayer @ Woody’s Bar in Kingston on the 31st August next weekend.

We’ll be bringing our brand of psyched-up electric folk and alt-country rock to the festival at 5.15pm. If you are around South London and up for some late August summer music come down! Just 30mins from Waterloo!

To celebrate 1 year since our EP came out we’ve dropped the price of the EP to pay what you want on bandcamp, and our tote bag is £7.

Photo 365

The Ministry Of My Own Labour

• Sent a bunch of Experience.Computer invites
• Hours of research for the SEKRT Project
• Had dinner with Benedict from Rival Strategy
• Had a call with designer Mark Hurrell
• Worked on the SoloRPG Journalling text
  • Did the layout for part 1
  • Covers

Terminal Access

I may have to write a separate post on how good this is, but for now, SDLR over at his newsletter Scenes With Simon just posted A Fan’s Mega-IP Playbook.

Drop the over-reliance and sanctity on canon, tier production and start smaller with more teams, and stick with teams for longer on smaller scales of execution. From this, you can eventually scale to execute at much bigger levels of production with more certainty. You’re also then doing right by not only the fans, but also the creative talent.

This whole post is extremely World Running read it!

The Doc Web

I wrote a long post about my experiences publishing both PDF’s and ‘live collections’ on line and how The Doc Web acts as a kind of greynet. Not quite public, not quite dark forest.

Social media is no longer reliable for reaching an audience. But maybe there’s a weird way forward? 

Dipping the Stacks

The United States Of Cults

Yes, add up all the cults and it makes a difference. But we don’t have one cult with the power of network television or terrestrial radio in the last century. Things have changed, but the sensibility of the public and the news media has not.

The Internet Is Not Boring, You Are – by Felix Futzbucker

Adults are bored because they’ve forgotten how to play, how to explore, how to engage with the world around them. They’ve outsourced their curiosity to algorithms, their creativity to AI, their sense of wonder to VR headsets.

Why Anthropic’s Artifacts may be this year’s most important AI feature: Unveiling the interface battle | VentureBeat

By creating a space where AI-generated content can be easily edited, refined, and incorporated into ongoing projects, Anthropic is bridging the gap between AI as a tool and AI as a teammate.

What Happens in a Mind That Can’t ‘See’ Mental Images | Quanta Magazine

Saw the apple? Shomstein was confused. She didn’t actually see an apple. She could think about an apple: its taste, its shape, its color, the way light might hit it. But she didn’t see it. Behind her eyes, “it was completely black,” Shomstein recalled. And yet, “I imagined an apple.” Most of her colleagues reacted differently. They reported actually seeing an apple, some vividly and some faintly, floating like a hologram in front of them.

Why bigger isn’t better: towards small scale worlding

All of the friends and artists I mentioned above fit into this definition of “Worlding.” Rather than just living inside of our single Big World, they are energized to put effort into creating smaller, simulations of worlds that they can call their own.

Reading

I burnt though Spook Country this week by William Gibson, in preparation for the next discussion on Wolf Pod with Eddie Rathke.

Still reading Dead Famous: An Unexpected History of Celebrity from Bronze Age to Silver Screen by Greg Jenner

Still reading Puppets, Gods, and Brands: Theorizing the Age of Animation from Taiwan by Teri J. Silvio

Infinite Exile – The Archaic Epidemic

With late summer coming on and the first edge of autumn in the air I needed something that fits my mood. The Archaic Epidemic’s new album Infinite Exile ticked the box.

Extreme riffs with beat downs so heavy they hurt, double pedal fast and blast drums, and yappy and deep vocal exchanges. The whole thing is chaotic from start to finish. They remind me a bit of Shadow of Intent but not as symphonic as all that – which is unsurprising as the album is mixed and produced by Christian Donaldson from Suffocation.

Anyways. If you like to punish yourself, this is a great album to get you’re ears around:

Remember Kids: